Chapter 564: Cynthia's Realization
"The Space-Time Tower. The left is the Space Tower, the right is the Time Tower. Built a hundred years ago by the genius Godey, it is the world's largest musical instrument."
Will and Cynthia followed behind a tour guide named Alice.
This Alice is a native resident of Alamos Town. While her main profession is a tour guide, she also studies music on her own.
She is not the Alice (Iris) from the Unova region.
It is worth mentioning that.
The 19-year-old dark-skinned girl Iris this year has already become the Champion of the Unova region.
Champions like Cynthia, Gold, and Wallace are no longer the younger generation of Champions.
Walking in Alamos Town, which uses Spain as its design prototype.
Cynthia listened with great interest to Alice telling her stories about this city.
Alamos Town is an isolated plateau island in the middle of a large lake located northeast of Jubilife City, connected to the mainland by a bridge.
Although it is not far from Celestic Town.
But because the size of Alamos Town is almost the same as Celestic Town, and the massive Mt. Coronet range stands between them.
Therefore, Cynthia had never been here.
As a newcomer.
She was inevitably curious about the stories of this city.
Behind the two women.
Will was somewhat lacking in interest and absent-minded.
He completely didn't want to come to this place; the reasons were relatively complex.
Firstly, it would remind him of the movie Lucario.
Secondly, it was...
The Battle of Alamos Town.
As early as the earthquake a month ago.
He guessed in his heart whether it was the impact caused by the battle between Dialga and Palkia.
Later on.
It was frequently reported on TV.
Tremors were often felt in the central Sinnoh region.
The source of this tremor couldn't be found; it flashed past, seemingly born accompanied by some powerful impact.
The Sinnoh League investigated several times but could never find the source.
Because of this, Will became increasingly certain that it was the problem caused by the battle between the gods of space and time.
So.
He brought Cynthia to Alamos Town.
To find a scientist guy with glasses, a scientist who specialized in studying space.
Ask him about it.
Will would then be certain what was going on.
But he had forgotten that man's name.
He only remembered that the person was childhood friends with this tour guide Alice, and finding her would definitely lead them to that scientist.
So Will dragged Cynthia to ask around in the tour guide circle, easily found this woman, and after informing her of their Champion identity and the general situation, the other party was very happy to help.
"Tonio is usually in the laboratory beneath the Space-Time Tower. We will definitely find him if we go there."
Alice led the way in front.
Her Chimchar kept pulling Will's tail and bouncing around, wanting to play with him.
But unfortunately.
An old man over two hundred years old like Will was truly too lazy to play and roughhouse with Chimchar everywhere.
Not to mention him.
Even if it were other Lucarios.
They would mostly not play with Chimchar either.
After all, the racial personality of Lucario tends to be calm, serious, and cool-headed.
Expecting them to be cute and lively like small Pokémon would highly likely lead to disappointment.
Arriving beneath the Space-Time Tower.
Looking at the Space-Time Tower from such a close distance.
Cynthia felt somewhat shocked, wanting to immediately share her feelings with Will.
But turning her head.
She found Will seemed completely uninterested in the Space-Time Tower, his gaze as indifferent as if the existence of the Space-Time Tower was like a pebble on the side of the road.
This gradually cooled Cynthia's desire to share.
Actually.
This feeling had occurred more than once.
She had seen the same look in Will's eyes more than once.
Clearly, it was a very stunning scenery, clearly it was something seen for the first time, but in his eyes, expectation and curiosity could never be seen.
As if he had already seen it long ago.
And the Sea Crown, the Ho-Oh feathers...
Where did those legendary items come from?
Will had never told her.
Cynthia had also never actively asked.
She felt Will would tell her one day.
But that day.
When will it come?
"Let's go."
Will's voice came from beside her ear.
"Mm."
Cynthia responded calmly.
Beneath the Space-Time Tower.
There was indeed such a laboratory.
Very small in scale.
Probably only fifty square meters, and there weren't any research instruments inside.
But precisely in such a place, a scientist who could achieve accomplishments in spatial research could be born.
This could also be considered a magical aspect of the Pokémon world.
As soon as they entered.
They saw an ordinary-looking, even somewhat old-looking, gray-haired man with glasses lying on the floor.
"?! What happened to him?"
Cynthia was startled, thinking a terrorist attack had happened here.
"Oh, it's fine, just fell asleep."
Alice waved her hand, used to it.
She went forward to help Tonio tidy up the laboratory, acting like a virtuous wife.
'How virtuous.'
Just as this thought surfaced in Cynthia's mind.
She saw Alice take a book 10cm thick and smack it twice on Tonio's face.
Smack!
A dull sound rang out.
'Just how much force was used to smack out such a sound...'
Cold sweat dripped from Cynthia's forehead.
And then she saw Tonio get up groggily with a swollen face.
Tonio grabbed a piece of paper from the side and wiped his eyes.
"Hm? Alice? These two are...?! Aren't these Miss Cynthia, the Sinnoh Champion, and Mr. Will?!"
After he clearly saw the newcomers, his eyes widened in shock.
He didn't remember doing anything severely harmful to the Sinnoh region, to the point of dispatching these two to deal with him, right?
"Miss Cynthia came to investigate the tremors that have appeared in the Sinnoh region recently. I heard your spatial research might be of help, Tonio?"
Alice couldn't help but show confusion in her eyes after saying this.
Is Tonio's spatial research that powerful?
He has never made any remarkable inventions before.
"So that's it! I understand, please come and take a look with me."
Once space issues were mentioned.
Tonio immediately became serious and grave.
Although this look, combined with that swollen face, seemed very uncoordinated.
For being able to help the Sinnoh Champion.
Tonio's heart was quite excited and honored.
Even though.
Regarding the League noticing him, he felt as confused as Alice.
Cynthia followed Tonio, stood in front of his computer, and under Tonio's explanation, began to understand the truth behind the tremors:
"Actually, the tremors occurring in the Sinnoh region this month are not traditional earthquakes, but a kind of spatial distortion caused by impacts..."
"That's right, a spatial distortion covering the entire Sinnoh region. The center of the distortion is constantly changing, and it is getting closer and closer to Alamos Town."
"Based on my findings in Godey's diary, I suspect this kind of spatial distortion... might be related to the Legendary Pokémon Palkia!"
Tonio's words made Cynthia's expression increasingly solemn.
Even Alice beside them, who didn't understand this knowledge well, had an uneasy expression, predicting that something bad was about to happen.
But seeing Cynthia and Will beside her.
She felt relieved again.
This is the powerful sense of security brought by the Sinnoh Champion.
However, upon this look.
She found Will didn't care about what Tonio was saying, but was focused on observing those music disks placed in the laboratory.
"These are music disks, which can make the Space-Time Tower play beautiful music. It can even be heard in the distant Jubilife City and Oreburgh City."
Alice walked up to Will and explained.
"Which one is the Oración music disk?"
Will scanned these music disks.
There were no names marked on them, so he couldn't find [Oración].
He was already certain now.
The tremors over the past month are exactly the upcoming space-time gods great battle incident.
The reason for the two gods to start a war is very simple.
The God of Space Palkia was scurrying around everywhere and broke into the territory of the God of Time Dialga.
One side chased and attacked, the other side fled while fighting back.
The war thus unfolded.
Actually, since ancient times, the reason for these two starting a war has basically always been because of territorial sovereignty issues.
This time is no exception.
Will guessed it might be because during the Super Djinn battle two years ago, the Shadow of Hoopa fully awakened those six Pokémon from their deep slumber. The awakened Palkia intended to stretch its muscles and started running around everywhere, leading to this incident occurring.
'Hope there is still time.'
Will clenched his fists, turning to look at Cynthia.
Coincidentally.
The latter's gaze also fell on him.
The two looked at each other.
Both knowing the problem in this incident is quite severe.
"Found it! This is Oración."
Alice brought a music disk to Will.
She was somewhat puzzled about what Will was looking for this music disk for.
"I need to borrow this thing for a bit."
"Okay."
Alice didn't refuse.
The Oración music disk belonged to Alice's grandmother—Alicia, and is now inherited by Alice; she has the right to decide the ownership of the music disk.
"Oración, what's the use of having that?"
Cynthia's gaze shifted over.
Although it might be a bit petty, she didn't really like seeing Will interacting with other blondes.
So she would uncontrollably shift her gaze over.
But in an instant, she would refocus her attention on the main business.
"Oración can calm immense anger. Palkia wouldn't create impacts and trigger shockwaves for no reason; it's mostly likely at war with other Pokémon."
"So, prepare Oración in advance, in case of accidents?"
Cynthia understood Will's meaning.
More importantly.
She heard Will's subtext.
They were still reviewing exactly who triggered this spatial tremor, and could only say they temporarily placed the suspicion on Palkia, but Will had already locked onto the target.
Cynthia felt Will must know something.
However.
If this matter has really been characterized as related to the God of Space Palkia, then the problem is a bit big.
Alamos Town must prepare to suffer a huge crisis.
"Mm, not only that, we also have to make another preparation."
Will nodded gently, and then looked at Cynthia,
"Evacuate the citizens of Alamos Town in the name of the Champion. Although we don't know when they will come, make preparations in advance."
"Okay."
Will come?
Lucario indeed knows something.
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